mlxtend Improve Apriori efficiency

This is an issue to revive the awesome work on the apriori algorithm in #646. This issue is partly to bump this up before the code in master further diverges from this excellent PR.

Mar 04 '22 02:03 rasbt

Since frequent itemset mining is computationally intensive we use cython to speed up the code?

Jul 02 '24 12:07 Nachiket18

You could do that, but I think reviving the PR linked there would be a recommended first step, and then someone can always add Cython on top of it.

Jul 02 '24 12:07 rasbt

Okay that sounds good. Should we go through research papers about improvements in apriori algorithm along with the original as mentioned in the PR?

@UltraArceus3 @ankithn30 @RonakGSahu would be interested in participating.

Jul 02 '24 22:07 Nachiket18

Good question (and sorry about the late response, I've been both moving and prepping a conference workshop). I would say that the improvements in the PR is the highest-impact one because the original apriori I implemented is a bit inefficient, and the "real" one from there should be much faster.

Jul 09 '24 14:07 rasbt